The entire sentence is one I use often.  Seems like a lot of double talk but in reality it hits with surgical precision.

To know and not to do, is not to know.  If you knew, you'd do and since you haven't...you don't!

Hmmmm....

Here's how it applies in today's context.

Hunter and I were leaving for the airport on Friday morning for the first flight out so we could meet up with his team for our last hockey tournament of the season.

The night before he was looking a bit "green" and not himself so the 0400 wake up was a bit of a test.

We get to the airport normally a forty five minute ride in record time (thanks Al)  and as we are getting out onto the curb, Hunter loses his insides.

Now understand this, we have done this before.  Went to Colorado on a sick man stomach and play like dog shit only to turn around and get the next flight home.

Granted we are only going to Los Angeles, but I "KNOW".  So back into the car and in a licity split time we get home and he's back in bed.

Twelve hours of sleep and what nots he is on the mend.

NOT THE POINT OF THE STORY...

We have played on teams with less talent but better records.  We have played on teams with more talent and hardware to take home.  We have played on teams with more talent and were worse in the standings.

Why?

I am beginning to think it all boils down to...

DISIPLINE!!!

While the kids say they "know what to do", they didn't on many occasions and the results were disappointing.

Execution of the plans were often overlooked.  Seems like we got it in practice, but when applying it at game time, it went down the shitter.

No trust in the process.  How can a plan work, if you don't apply the plan?

This is where it becomes the "NOT TO DO..."

Going back to a way you are familiar with that has gotten you to the spot you stand and have been standing for a while and no application of the principles that will take you to the next level is undisciplined and untrustworthy.

You can only hammer a point home so many times in practice, but when it comes to game time application...the athlete MUST trust and be disciplined.

Yes, we had talent.  We had good kids!  We had good families!  What we didn't have is the discipline to execute.  We as coaches believed the athlete would "DO" but then they didn't.

At the end of every season, I go through my mental check list and see what I could have done better.

I didn't run this team with the IRON FIST that I have become known for.  I perhaps gave a little more "free will" than I should have.  "To KNOW and not to do, is not to know"

All athletes are the same.  The names change, the personalities are in a +/-  range, but all the teams have the same characters on them at every level.

Next season the IRON FIST will return.

No more:

Excuses for being late or not attending dry land training

what the kids call music today. (I listen to what motivates me...and I  motivate the athlete)

Trying.  You'll either do or die in the process.

Time for a short break and then start the process of the

OFF SEASON!

Today's Training:

UBE: 10 minutes

BOSU Sit ups: 50 reps

Foam Roll

Stretch